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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Clothes Consumption Dress Fashion Rank Women Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of Enlightenment sociability. A … competition. However, the problem with establishing visual indicators is that they are easily emulated. In her study of women’s clothing in the eighteenth century, Jennie Batchelor warns that fashion presented a threat to the social hierarchy, as ‘both a means of self-expression and a potential facilitator of false self-creation’. 4 For women in particular their choice of dress was accused of being calculated, chosen to show off their best features, or …
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An Imam in Paris (1826-1831) [ Practices ]
… to prevent vermin from breeding and thus all but the very poor are free from fleas or any other such creatures. French women's clothes are very pretty, but there is a certain immodesty about them especially when they wear their most … Another wonderful thing is that, once the belt has been put on, the waist is so slim that one can hold it in both hands. Women also tend to attach a tin rod to the belt, which extends from the belly to their bosom so that their posture is … curves. They are indeed very wily. One of their habits that cannot be condoned is that, contrary to the wont of Arab women, they do not let their hair hang freely. French women always gather their hair in the middle of their heads and put …
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Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… in the eighteenth century in several respects. Shoes were an important part of the dress ensemble for both men and women, so changing styles can highlight shifts in eighteenth-century fashions. Shoes also affected bodily posture and … dress history, charting how styles changed over time. Indeed, shoes were central to the dress ensemble for both men and women in the eighteenth century. Patrician men wore heeled, buckled shoes with stockings and breeches, as part of the ‘three piece suit’ that came to be regarded as the uniform of the English gentleman. 1 Women too wore heeled, buckled shoes for much of the century as part of their dress ensemble. Changes to shoe styles …
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… By the same token, it never departs from the rules of decency, whereas in Egypt the dance is one of the specialities of women since it arouses desires. Conversely, in Paris, it is a special kind of jump, which is entirely devoid of even the … (the Carnival), during which people could masquerade and disguise themselves as they pleased: men dressed up as women and women as men, the rich could pretend to be poor and vice-versa. 3 . Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of …
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